Linked by Nicholas Blachford on Mon 15th Jul 2002 01:14 UTC
According to a brief paragraph on MacOS Rumours Apple may be switching to IBM POWER4 CPUs instead of the Motorola G5 for future Macs.
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what about the pentium 4 xeon
you know you want this http://www.compaq.com/products/workstations/w6000/index.html
It isn't the fastest. It's difference with the main Pentium 4 processor line is that it supports multi-processor. So, if you are going for a quad or a dual, Xeon may be a good idea, but dual/quad processor doesn't mean extra performance - because most applications out there aren't SMP. Anyway, on its own, Pentium 4 2.56GHz with a 533MHz bus is still the fastest 32-bit processor out there :-)
Besides, did you know for $200 lower price of Apple's PowerMac G4 Dual 1GHz Ultimate, you could get a dual 2.2GHz Pentium 4 Xeon, with a DVD-R/RW drive, NVIDIA Q4 200NVS 64mb, and 2x80GB UltraATA 7,200rpm drives, with 1GB of RDRAM (yes, it is 0.5GB less than that PowerMac, but there wasn't any option to make it 1.5GB, and it is cheaper buying the RAM from elsewhere anyway)? All that for a system that is faster than Mac OS X and more suitable for 3D graphics editing. Not a bad deal, if you ask me. (plus, if you add $250, you would be Premier). I wonder how much the system would cost if we swap the Quaddro for a GeForce - certainly cheaper.